Jeremiah 51:56

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for the Lord is a God of recompense, he will surely requite.

Cross References

Genesis 49:24

yet his bow remained unmoved, his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel),

Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!

Psalm 37:15

their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Psalm 46:9

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear, he burns the chariots with fire!

Psalm 76:3

There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah

Isaiah 21:2

A stern vision is told to me; the plunderer plunders, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam, lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

Isaiah 34:8

For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Isaiah 35:4

Say to those who are of a fearful heart, “Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.”

Isaiah 59:18

According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render requital.

Jeremiah 49:35

Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might;

Jeremiah 50:10

Chaldea shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:36

A sword upon the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword upon her warriors, that they may be destroyed!

Jeremiah 51:24

“I will requite Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:30

The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting, they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed, they have become women; her dwellings are on fire, her bars are broken.

Jeremiah 51:48

Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:53

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me upon her, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:6

“Flee from the midst of Babylon, let every man save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance, the requital he is rendering her.

Lamentations 3:64

“Thou wilt requite them, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

Ezekiel 39:3

then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand.

Ezekiel 39:9

“Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go forth and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, handpikes and spears, and they will make fires of them for seven years;

Amos 2:15

he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.

Deuteronomy 32:35

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.

2 Thessalonians 1:6

since indeed God deems it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

Revelation 17:16

And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the harlot; they will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire,

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!”

Revelation 19:2

for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”

1 Samuel 2:4

The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.